¶ … GI Bill do?
It provided health care to wounded veterans of World War II.
It allowed American veterans of World War II to go to college free and to obtain low-interest mortgages.
It gave American veterans a pension so that they would not have to work.
It permitted the families of servicemen killed in the war to receive compensation.
It made all veterans exempt from taxation.
How did the United States respond to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948?
It used an airlift to resupply West Berlin.
It threatened to launch a preemptive nuclear war.
It allowed West Berlin to become part of East Germany.
It permitted the Soviet Union to participate in the government of West Berlin.
It exchanged the right to West Berlin for access to Prague.
President Harry Truman developed the Truman Doctrine in 1947 because he wanted to give European countries economic assistance.
rebuild the militaries of Great Britain and France in order to resist communism.
x provide military and economic aid for Turkey and Greece to resist the spread of communism.
offer the Soviet Union an opportunity for reconciliation.
place atomic weapons under international control.
4. The 1948 Marshall Plan was important because it helped which geographic area recover and rebuild after World War II?
The Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
x
Western Europe
Southeast Asia
Northern Africa
5. Which of the following statements concerning the formation of NATO in 1949 is not true?
The United States wanted a defensive alliance that preserved the security of Western Europe.
Many European countries joined because they feared the spread of communism.
x
The Soviet Union formed NATO to offset the creation of the Warsaw Pact by the United States.
This was the first major military alliance involving the United States since the late 1700s.
The United States' alliance in NATO was the first time in its history it had entered into a peacetime military alliance.
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6. The Taft-Hartley Act
x outlawed the closed shop and permitted the president to call a cooling-off period to delay a strike.
expanded the rights of labor unions.
constituted a slave-labor bill that crippled the labor movement in the United States.
was the cornerstone of President Truman's Fair Deal.
was the first New Deal act that was repealed in the Truman administration.
7. In 1950, Joseph McCarthy argued that Eisenhower should lead a military coup against President Truman.
that the United States should seek a peace settlement with the Soviet Union.
that UN forces should use the atomic bomb against North Korea.
x that there were communists working in the American government.
none of these.
8. In the years immediately after World War II, what did most American civil-rights leaders do?
They ended most of their activity in the South because of intimidation, repression, and murder.
They found themselves shut out of the White House because of President Harry Truman's hatred of blacks.
x
They launched voter-registration drives in the South that raised the percentage of blacks registered to vote.
They were revealed by congressional investigations to be procommunist.
They celebrated their new status as celebrities and their new power as leaders of the Truman administration.
9. What was President Truman's motive in adopting an active pro-civil-rights policy beginning in 1946?
He believed that every American should enjoy the full rights of citizenship.
He wanted to cultivate the African-American vote for future elections.
He felt that racial inequality in the United States undercut American foreign policy in its contest with the Soviet Union.
All of these.
x
None of these.
10. Who were the Dixiecrats?
x
They were white supremacists who hoped to deny Truman's reelection and preserve their way of life.
They bolted the Democratic Party and supported Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
They formed the core of President Truman's support in the solid South during the 1948 election.
They were northerners who moved to the South in the postwar years to build new industries and take advantage of cheap labor.
None of these.
11. Between 1947 and 1951, what did the loyalty boards that were established to root out subversives in government service do?
They uncovered evidence of massive subversion and espionage within the Departments of State and Defense.
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